Immediately organize and transfer part of the procurement operations to the resources of the consumers themselves, leaving to the state budget the payment for procurement and transportation of firewood and timber materials for the most urgent needs of the state, such as: railways, water transport, the military, large state industry, acting in accordance with the directives of Glavtop, Glavlescom nos. 811, 812. I point out the exceptional difficulty of supplying all work fully from the center. Given the exhaustion of reserves, I propose seeking to the maximum degree local resources for payment of the work. Under no circumstances permit the diversion to other needs of monetary and material resources assigned by the center for timber procurement. Report on the measures taken to Glavlescom*.

Moscow, Kremlin,
19/XII - 21

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Labor and Defense Lenin

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* Transmitted by radio. Ed.

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

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